Expert Committee Formation

• Competent and experienced experts committee should be involved in evaluation the patent application. (Refer Serial No. V - guidelines for the formation of the committee).
• HEI need to ensure in-house participation in the submission of patent application faculties, students, and staff are expected.
• Institute may invite any number of experts per evaluation based on the number of applications submitted as per their convenience.
• Honorarium for experts must be borne by the institute from their own resources. But the quality of the activities should not be compromised.
• Minutes of Meeting of Expert Committee and evaluation report should be maintained at institute and submitted to MoE's Innovation Cell on need basis.